Respect for History Park

August 17th 2013
Hello my fellow travellers! After a short, yet good, night's sleep at Meltem's apartment in Canakkale I made my way down to the harbour together with Meltem and Halil who both decided to come along with me. They gave me the advice to go to Edirne from Eceabat instead of from Canakkale to save both time and money. Eceabat is a town on the other side of the Dardanelles that I passed through yeste ... read more

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Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more

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I'm a small Swede that simply just love to travel. I haven't been around as much as I'd wish to yet, but my life long goal is to visit all the countries in the world. I still have a long way to go before that mission is accomplished though. I live with my two cats and one spider in Alvesta, a small city outside of Växjö where I try to host people from all over the world as often as I can. If you need a place to stay, just look me up on couchsurfing.org and send me a request. My living I make working as a insurance adviser, it's a soft job with plenty of free time. I try to get out in the ... full info

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29th January 2016

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Blood Ties
We celebrate ANZAC Day in Oz as a coming of age for our young country. A public holiday to remember a bloody defeat at the hands of the Turks seems strange. Yet it means many things to many people. To me there is a plaque in Hyde Park in Sydney from Attaturk himself that brings me to tears each time - "Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives . . . You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours . . . You, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace, after having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well." ATATURK, 1934 (Inscription in Turkish) 1881 - 1938 MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK President Of The Republic Of Turkey

29th January 2016

A Small Swede in the Big World
Per-Olof Persson

Blood Ties
I understand why it means so much to you. Gallipoli was somewhat of a birth of the national pride of Australia and New Zeeland as nations in their own right. Kemal Ataturk was a great man in many ways. The plaque in Hyde Park (which I hope to see some day) is mirrored at Gallipoli by the Kabatepe Ari Burnu Beach Memorial: https://www.travelblog.org/Photos/8047070. Many good men on both sides lost their lives in this battle.

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